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These guidelines provide fire users with information to plan, prepare and conduct: fuel reduction burns, stubble burns, burning of piles heaps and windows, prescribed fires.

It was a remarkable and unexpected display of refugee power – the power of the powerless NICKELSDORF, AUSTRIA, Sept 5 (UNHCR) – It began at noon on September 4 with a spontaneous march out of Budapest down the highway towards the Austrian…

About 200 participants from ten countries convened at the SAMARITAN Forum in Bolzano from 28th to 29th of August 2015 This year’s international Samaritan Forum was focused on innovation in first aid and rescue. The participants also…

Source: Spalding Today - The East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) launched a six-month pilot scheme across the region in partnership with its six fire and rescue services. For Derbyshire, Humberside, Leicestershire and Rutland,…

The Inter-Agency Standing Committee has published an interesting guidelines for volunteers and rescuers, workers in humanitarians NGOs and communities affected by armed conflict.

BANKS COUNTY, Ga. - Clayton Martin was a volunteer firefighter for the Clarksville Fire Department. At 6'8", he dominated the basketball court. The gentle giant hoped to become a pastor. He drowned before that happened. Those sent to rescue…

How the italian health system ensure the health in a big event like EXPO2015? With the best equipped regional EMS service in Italy: AREU. Know more about them More than 1 million of potential patients - from all around the world and…

Latest news from South Sudan are not good. Two nationals who have been working for the French-based medical relief organization Doctors Without Borders have been killed in the oil-rich Unity State, agency reported on August, 23th. …

IRIN News, the global news magazine about humanitarian operations, published an interesting article during the World Humanitarian Day, talking about the aggression and killing of aid workers all around the world.

By: Mario Rugna, MEDEST118 In the Prehospital Emergency System where I work (from late 1996) we are historically used to manage cardiac arrest events with a deep “Stay and Play”, except for some sporadic cases (mostly pediatric patients)…